Subject: Re: [BUG] More on t5562 hangs randomly in subtests 6,8 and 13 in 2.21.0-rc0

From: Max Kirillov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:40:55 +0200

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:16:26AM -0500, [email-masked] wrote:
> On 2019-02-13, Max Kirillov, wrote:
> As far as the unintended reuse of the output file, and issues with pipes,
> yes, the NonStop is very sensitive to complex use of pipes and much of the
> compatibility issues we have had relate to those (usually Linux-specific
> pipe assumptions). That is where I have been looking when trying to debug
> this situation (not yet found anything). This could very well be directly
> related.

You mentioned cases 6,8,13. These are all related to gipped
request body. Could it be the git-http-backend does not
clean a sub-process which pervforms the decompression?